Live Review: Lucy Rose ‘I Tried’ (Official Video)

The former Bombay Bicycle Club backing vocalist is making the move into a limelight of her own, with her dulcet electronic second album, ‘Like An Arrow’.

‘I Tried’ is the follow up single to ‘Our Eyes’, and similarly to that track’s video, again we see LUCY ROSE playing up to her English rose roots. She stands on a refuge island in the middle of the main road in East London as black cabs and red buses career past her. It’s a total nightmare to cross, so she’s a brave one to stand there.

Whereas normally these kind of music video set ups are focused intently on the artist, showing a full screen of their air brushed face miming along to the lyrics whilst their gaze is locked down the camera lens, here Rose is standing at a distance, too far for us to really see her facial expressions; she doesn’t mime or sing, just stands forlornly and blankly, her only movements being her hair wafting a little in the wind.

The song is a slow burner, intimate and honest, showing her pining for a chance to prove her selflessness to the man she loves. The vocals on the chorus are slightly muted, reflective of her shyness and vulnerability.

She’s begging for a chance to stay, but the song shows how fragile and brief a relationship can be, and how there is a pivotal moment in which the relationship can be made or broken. And whilst you’re watching the video and thinking all of this over, suddenly, she’s gone. Blink, and you’ll miss her – which seems to be the very point of the track.

Words by Katie Rowley

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LUCY ROSE 'OUR EYES'